About Velachery Chennai

Velachery is situated outskirts the Chennai City in Kanchipuram District of Tamil Nadu. The places around it are Guindy, Adyar, and Thiruvanvyur, Madipakkam, Adampakkam, and Ullagaram. Velachery was earlier known as Vedasreni which literally means Abode of Vedas. In fact, the boom in IT Segment has impacted a lot on development of Velachery and in the couple of decades the property rates have tremendously increased. Today Velachery is a prominent commercial as well the residential areas in South Chennai.

Velachery Area:

Connectivity to Velachery:

Velachery is at a distance of 13 kms from Chennai Central Station and from airport it is barely 5km. one can reach airport easily using the Inner Ring Road. Taking the direct bus to airport is not available, one has to change buses. The major terminus located in Velachery is the Vijayanagar Bus Terminus. There are so many buses travelling from this area to other parts of the city. Satellite Mofussil bus terminus is soon going to start in Velachery and Madhavaram in order to lessen the traffic in the city. There is soon going to be Metro railway station in Velachery. Due to some land acquisition problems, there is a delay of metro rail which will travel from Velachery to St. Thomas Mount. The other nearby metro station is Adyar.

Velacherry Landmarks:

There are many landmarks in Velachery like the Velachery MRTS Station, Velachery MRTS Flyover, The Westin Chennai and IIT Madras.

Hotels and Restaurants in Velacherry:

There are so many big Hotels like Westin Chennai, ITC Grand Chola, which is situated in Guindy and then there is Park Hyatt.
There are many dinning restaurants and small food outlets like CCD, Hot Chips, The chocolate Room, and Caf? Tapas. Sweet shops like Krishna Sweets and Adyar Anand Bhavan are there. Mc Donalds and CCD and Pizza Outlets are regularly visited by people.

Retail in Velachery:

There are so many retail outlets like Green Trends, Titan Eye, Naidu Hall, Mega Mart, Metro shoes, etc. There are new upcoming shopping malls like Pheonix Market City and PS Srijan Grand Mall.

Banks in Velachery:

There are also banks like SBI, LIC, Canara Bank and Overseas Bank offering banking services to the residents of Velachery.

Educational Institutions in Velachery:

There are various educational institutions in and nearby Velachery and few of them are listed below: